This release contains the latest beta 2 of PostgreSQL 18 and alpha 1 of PostGIS 3.6.0.

For a full list of changes, please refer ro the PostgreSQL Release Announcement and the PostgreSQL Release Notes.

While Postgres.app does not yet include all the extensions for PostgreSQL 18 that we usually bundle, this release especially adds updated versions of PostGIS and pljs. The extensions pgvector and pldebugger are not yet compatible. Additional extensions will be released in the Postgres.app Extensions repository.

Please note that beta versions are intended for evaluation purposes only. You may encounter bugs of varying severity. During the beta testing period, the on-disk data format of PostgreSQL is not yet stable. This means that the data directory may not be compatible with future versions. You will need to dump and restore your database before upgrading from an older beta version.

The binaries of PostgreSQL 13-17 are identical to those in Postgres.app release 2.8.2.